The Irish standard., 1887-01-08

at very late period, excited so great a
sensation in the metropolis of the king
dom, by his strenuous opposition to
the introduction of the. brazen
coinage. for the patent had been
accorded unto the man, Wood. l
allude to man Of whom you, in your
station, may be ignorant-the dean, as
he is entitled by those Of his belief, OF
ST. Patrick's Chuvch-Jonathan Swift
who hath employed a portion of time
which he might have turned to far bet
ter uses. in composing certain ridicu-
lous verses for the service of the nursery
---replete with nothing salutary or in
structive.'' By this time the Doctor
had replenished the plate which was be-
fore him; but, unwilling to relinquish
the subject upon which he
had launched-he continued speak
ing, interrupting himself at each
OF the breaks, thus--which fol-
low, in his speech, for the purpose Of
,pjistering yet further consolation to
the interior-.snothing salutary or in
structlve---but formed altogether Of n
certain absurd and nosensical combina-
| ton Of 11nmeaning terlns-to wit:
Here we go up, up, up........
And here we go down-down--downy
Here we go backward and forward
4 10 for T)uh]ip TOWN.
and the like. And this----this is the
man has all Dublin towney'
Ito use his own -ridiculus phrase,
congregated in his - track, with
shouts and applauses which they would
not accord to Swedenborg himself, ii he
eoiourned amongst them
"Gondoutha!'' interposed the appa-
rently edited and admiring guide.
"For my. for my part-I am Of
opinion; that. ;. my load Carteret, with
all his worldly civility viii make the
dean repeat his brazeu interference in
$50 unclerical an affair. For I am
convinced by the report of Isaac New
ton. though he differ from me on many
points of faith as one by his office in
the mint necessarily skilled in all varie-
ties OF metal coins and medals-tbat the
man Wood hath worthily approved his
trust. Z"
80, dere is no doubt o. dat," said the
guide, tossing his head in the manner
of one who speaks OF thing assured
then resting his head on the soft neck
Of the child, and turning his eyes down.
wards towards the fire, he hummed, in
6 very low murmuring key, the follow
ing words OF ballad then popular in a
certain part of Ireland-And which, in
all probability, some of my readers may
recognise:
Come hidder and try,
TIL teach you to buy
A pot O. good ale for Il farden-
Come--treepince score,
1 ask you no more,
And fig for de Draper and HarCing!"
Mr.. Shines eyes first dilated in as
tonishment, and then contracted with as
much of darkening scrutiny as the aeshy
protuberances around them could be
made to assume. upon his humble COM
panion. It may be useful to say, that
the preachers opinions OF Woods cele-
brated brass coinage--a subject of which
he knew no more than it was impossible
for any but a deaf man to avoid learn
ing-were entirely modelled from his re-
ligious inhuences-and he needed no
more than the whispered report which
had reached him of the name Of the real
author of the Drapier's letters-to de-
eide his judgment at once, and
array all the little argument he pos
sessed on the opposite side OF the ques-
ton. Few opportunities, however, We're
afforded Of achieving anything like g
triumph for his gratuitously assumed |
opinions in his converse with the city |
people, every one of whom was as
familiar with every possible hue and
form of the subject as with the faces of
bis family 1t was something like a
qualification to him, therefore, to light !
upon even this poor youth, whom he
easily calculated on impressing with
what opinion he pleased, and from
whom, in this wild, region, he did not
expect to meet with this gentle
sneer-indicating at once a superior ac-
luaintance with the subject, and set
lied conviction in the other wav.
The lad did not appear to observe the
effect which he had produced on the
n ind Of the preacher, but recommended
his noisy play with the lively child,
whom he still held on his knee-inter-
mingling the combination Of un-
meaning aud ridiculous terms' with
sundry sly hints, which would have
succeeded even with the phlegmatic
Doctor, if they had been addressed to
him at less interesting moment:
'.Look at de gentleman-now-do-